The Clippers vs. Warriors Locker Room Fight Was More Like Stephen Curry Stepping Up To A Ballboy

by **bobheckler** Mon May 05, 2014 1:20 pm

Ah, where would we be without the media applying a microscope to every pimple and blemish?

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/5/4/5680202/stephen-curry-clippers-warriors-fight-ballboy

The Clippers vs. Warriors locker room fight was more like Stephen Curry stepping up to a ballboy
By Tom Ziller  @teamziller on May 4 2014, 9:16a 22

Here is proof that there is no fighting in the NBA anymore.

The Clippers and Warriors a) hate each other and b) just finished a grueling seven-game series. You'd expect nerves to be frayed, especially on Golden State's losing side. So it wasn't a total surprise to hear that the teams engaged in a hallway altercation after Game 7.

Wait, let's throw some scare quotes in there. The "teams" engaged in a "hallway altercation" after Game 7. From Marc Spears:

After the game ended, the Warriors thought they heard a Clippers assistant coach yell, "It's a little quiet in there," several times outside their locker room, multiple sources said. Warriors guards Stephen Curry and Steve Blake were the first to dart from the locker room and confronted some Clippers ball boys in the hallway between both locker rooms, a source said.

Emphasis mine. What's more hilarious: that ballboys were taunting the Warriors, or that Curry and Steve Blake rushed out to confront who they thought was an assistant coach?

There's more. From Sam Amick:

While all the details of the situation were not immediately clear, it's believed that Warriors big man Marreese Speights was among the aggressors for the Warriors while point guard Chris Paul was allegedly the irritant for the Clippers -- though maybe even in silence. As was described by the witnesses, Paul came along as the incident appeared to be dying down and his mere presence picked things up again.

Emphasis still mine. An altercation gets elevated because Chris Paul walks by?! What kind of party is this? I mean, it's not exactly Kendrick Perkins and Zach Randolph throwing down.

All reports indicate that STAPLES Center security and the LAPD eventually intervened after Speights and Glen Davis yelled at each other and Paul stood there and Curry side-eyed ballboys. After a season of snarling, the chapel controversy and a tough-as-casino-buffet-steak seven-game series ... this is how all that tension is resolved? I'm glad the NBA has gotten rid of violence, but this is just absurd. Settle it with a game of cribbage next time.

bob
MY NOTE: The bold emphasis in the text is the author's, who takes credit for it. It is not mine.

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by **Sam** Mon May 05, 2014 1:29 pm

So is the author admitting that he's written a non-story about a non-story? Boy, the "easy news" scribes are getting bolder and bolder.

Sam

by **bobheckler** Mon May 05, 2014 1:35 pm

sam wrote:So is the author admitting that he's written a non-story about a non-story? Boy, the "easy news" scribes are getting bolder and bolder.

Sam

sam,

Like CNN announcing 'breaking news' about how the 'breaking news' story about the possible discovery of something in the ocean which may or may not have been related to that Malaysian airlines plane that went down was, in fact, not related to that airplane.

FLASH! Possible Break In Story!
FLASH! Possible Break in Story is Bogus!

Please re-calibrate yourselves back to where we were before we talked up nothing with a premature ejaculation.

bob

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by **Sam** Mon May 05, 2014 1:56 pm

Bob,

I'm now officially dizzy, and I need a nap!

Sam

by **Outside** Mon May 05, 2014 2:01 pm

The author got off to a bad start with me with this very first statement:

The Clippers and Warriors a) hate each other

The testiness of their regular season games is well documented, but I thought they stayed away from testiness during the series. What I saw was two teams whose respect for each other grew immensely during the series.

I don't know what happened in that hallway, and I've read a couple of different versions, but if the two teams' areas are separated by a hallway that can be accessed by both teams, then it's dumb to not have at least one security guy there. Other than whoever on the Clippers' side instigated the situation having more respect and self-control, having a security guard would likely have prevented this from happening.

If anyone -- ballboy, player, coach, or whatever -- was yelling, "it's a little quiet in there" to the Warriors' area, then that's a classless move to taunt a team that had given its heart and soul to that series and was a play or two from making the Clippers' locker room the quiet one. If this idiot author thinks it's ridiculous for Warriors players who have just suffered a heartbreaking loss to take exception to someone taunting them, then they don't understand the depth of emotion that goes into playing at such a high level and the hurt of coming so close in the face of great odds.

by **k_j_88** Mon May 05, 2014 6:16 pm

Taunting is quite childish. Nothing good comes of it.

KJ

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